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05-06-2013

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Boy, is the shell powerful.

Reading replies to questions, as an amateur, I have learnt a lot from you pros on here.
The shell in any of its guises is serioulsy poweful.

With so many transient and resident commands at one's disposal is there anything,
non-GUI, that cannot be done inside a default shell and terminal?

Why bother with Python, (I do like Python BTW), or even ANSI C, or any other language
for that matter...

The more I get into the Scope the more impressed I am with shell scripting...

So to you pros, I say thanks, just by searching and observing this site alone I have
learnt a great deal...

Although Debian and PCLinuxOS were my main OSes, (still used daily), OSX 10.7.5 has
now taken its place for my dev' work. Vista - UGH!, and Windows 7 are usd by my wife
and only by me for WinUAE and anything Python wise that is platform independent and
needs testing...

Once again chaps and chapesses, your knowlegde on shell stuff makes me feel - oh - so -
amateur... ;oD

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suspend

suspend(1)                                                         User Commands                                                        suspend(1)

NAME

       suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell

SYNOPSIS

   sh
       suspend

   csh
       suspend

   ksh
       suspend

DESCRIPTION

   sh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

   csh
       Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su.

   ksh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          15 Apr 1994                                                         suspend(1)